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Pipestone Creek, Wisconsin
7.6 mapped river miles, draining 6 square miles, in the Upper Chippewa basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 20.9 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 20.9 miles away, at Namekagon River At Leonards, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The pills above go to USGS. These are this site's pages for the same gauges — a thirty-day chart, the monthly means, the record, and today's reading against the five-year normal for today: 05331833.
The character of the water
Pipestone Creek is Class I water under Wisconsin DNR, managed as wild, and the thermal classification reaches under half of it: 3.3 miles typed Cold out of 7.63 NHD miles, 43 per cent, with nothing classed otherwise. There is no gauge in it; the nearest is on the Namekagon, 20.9 miles away. It is a creek by every measure — 8.2 feet across at the median, second order, draining 6.03 square miles over the 7.6 miles of axis mapped, which is its whole NHD length. No block of public land on our map fronts it, and Wisconsin has no access file, so where a reader may stand is a question these pages cannot answer. Blueberry Creek and Camp One Creek come in within half a mile of each other, at river miles 4.0 and 4.5.
Thermal classification
Wisconsin DNR's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | Wisconsin DNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 7.6–4.3 | 3.3 | cold | — |
Wisconsin DNR has classified 3.3 of the 7.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 43% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water Wisconsin DNR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Pipestone Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Pipestone Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- Pipestone Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Wisconsin DNR classification
Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class I. The management tier on those reaches is wild. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
WDNR trout stream classification →
Species
Wisconsin DNR designates this as trout water — Class I — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
42 insects are recorded from northern Wisconsin, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Eggs Other |
October–January and April | 33–60°F | #10–16 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Green Rock Worm / Green Weenie Rhyacophila spp. |
April–June and September–October | 45–68°F | #10–14 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Alderfly Sialis spp. |
May–June | 52–66°F | #10–14 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
| Giant Black Stonefly (Salmonfly) Pteronarcys dorsata |
May–June | 50–62°F | #4–6 |
| Green Sedge Rhyacophila spp. |
May–August | 48–64°F | #12–16 |
| Light Cahill Maccaffertium ithaca |
May–July | 55–68°F | #12–16 |
And 28 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.
Tributaries and watershed
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Blueberry Creek 3.5 mi · RM 4.0
- Camp One Creek 2.1 mi · RM 4.5
Pipestone Creek sits in HUC 8 07050001, the Upper Chippewa basin, and drains 6 square miles, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 8 NHD reaches carry the name for 7.6 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.